Notes
Amendments
23 Oct 2018 - Table D1 updated.
17 Dec 2019 - Footnote (c) of Table 2.43 and footnote (b) of Table 2.44 were updated in the data tables for Australia's mothers and babies 2016 – in brief data tables.
Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief
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Topic: Mothers & babies
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief. AIHW, 2018.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief. Canberra: AIHW; 2018.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2018, Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief, AIHW, Canberra.
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Australia’s mothers and babies 2016: in brief presents key statistics and trends on pregnancy and childbirth of mothers, and the characteristics and outcomes of their babies.
This publication is designed to accompany the perinatal data visualisations.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-404-1
- Cat. no: PER 97
- Pages: 71
Findings from this report:
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Around 310,200 women gave birth to almost 314,800 babies in 2016
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43% of Indigenous mothers smoked during pregnancy in 2016 compared with 50% in 2009
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12% of women who gave birth in 2016 had gestational diabetes
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1 in 3 mothers had a caesarean section in 2016